This page is a mixed bag of whimsical visual musings, doodles and observations. The majority were painted in1995 and 1996 but some much earlier and a few very recent. The originals are for sale at around £200 each - please email if interested as they aren't in the online shop. info@kmelling.com
Watercolour painting
Artist: Keith Melling
2023
On Bruach na Frithe, looking south, Black Cuillin, Skye
Watercolour painting
Artist: Keith Melling
Cotter Force, Wensleydale
Watercolour painting
Artist: Keith Melling
On Simon Seat, Wharfedale
Watercolour painting
Artist: Keith Melling
French Fields from the Air 10/09/00
I passed over in an aeroplane and was fascinated by the French fields below.
Watercolour
Artist; Keith Melling
Sun and Strata
Watercolour 1986
Artist: Keith Melling
Stocks Reservoir, Lancashire 2020
This was done from a sketch.
I walked with W from Slaidburn.
Waterclour
Artist: Keith Melling
Poppies
Watercolour
Artist - Keith Melling
Abstract by a Scottish Loch
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Erratic Boulder, Norber, Yorkshire Dales
There is a field full of erratic boulders near Austwick.
French Sepia Ink
Artist: Keith Melling
Dove Stones, Snow, Dusk 2017
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Dow Crag and Goat's Water 2003
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
A Walk in Patterdale, Lake District 1995
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Biking along the East shore of Coniston Water 24/10/00
I remember cycling on a wet atumn day with E.
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Agay Hillside, France 13/09/00
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Langdale Pikes from Blea Rigg
Oil
Artist : Keith Melling
Agay Beach, France 10/09/00
It was really quite busy but I decided to leave the people out.
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
D is for Doodle. Corner of Mill Floor 1982
watercolour and pencil
Artist - Keith Melling
Dowkarbottom Cave In Littondale, Yorkshire Dales was well used by ancient people as bones and pottery have been found.
Watercolour 2018
Artist: Keith Melling
Scoska Cave - looking out towards the light, Littondale, Yorkshire Dales.
There were lots of bat and moth monitoring equipment inside dangling from the ceiling every 15 yards or so. These were not obtrusive as they were small. I don't know how far inside they went as I was reluctant to go too far inside. Where I sat the midges were quite ferocious.
Watercolour 2017
Artist: Keith Melling
Leaf
Watercolour 1986
Artist: Keith Melling
Oriental soldier thinking about a cloud.
Wax pencil and ink1980
Artist :Keith Melling
Oval
Wax pencil and ink1979
Artist :Keith Melling
Doodle 1977
For want of a better title (I don't know what) I've just called this Doodle, though it clearly took quite some time.
Wax pencil and ink.
Artist : Keith Melling
Diamond Doodlescape
Wax pencil and ink 1979
Artist : Keith Melling
Scape
Coloured pencil and ink 1981
Artist : Keith Melling
Rise of a fuller moon
Wax pencil and ink1981
Artist : Keith Melling
Reclining Spatter Figure with Birds Egg Moon
Ink 1981
Artist : Keith Melling
Fungi figures in a kingdom of their own
Pastel pencil and ink 1979
Artist : Keith Melling
Doodlescape
Pastel pencil and ink1981
Artist : Keith Melling
Crowd Gathering
Mixed media 1970
Artist: Keith Melling
Viewpoints of the little red & yellow town
Watercolour 10/05/02
Artist: Keith Melling
Stratascape
Pencil crayon and pen 1979
Artist: Keith Melling
Bruach na Frithe, other Cuillin summits and mist, Skye
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Memory of a mountain walk, Bruach na Frithe, Cuillins, Skye
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Clouds and Skye from a Cuillin summit
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Close to the rocks in Loch Dunvegan, Skye
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
In Coire Lagon Skye
OK, a bit more considered perhaps than a doodle
Acrylic painting
Artist : Keith Melling
Coire Lagon, Cuillins, Skye
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Coir a Tairnelear, Cuillins, Skye
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
A Cuillin ridge walk, Skye
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Between Sugar Loaf Hill & Warrendale Knotts, Settle, Yorkshire Dales
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Big End, Pendle Hill, Lancashire
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Bowfell Butress from Cimbers Traverse, Lakeland
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Cave Painting III, Yordas Cave, Kingsdale, Yorkshire Dales
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Stage Antics
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Close to the ground at Attermire Scar, Yorkshire Dales
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Cracked Waves
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Cross Currents
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Deep Water
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Drystone Wall, High Hill Lane, Settle, Yorkshire Dales
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Ease Gill Kirk
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Evening Trees
Oil Painting
Artist Keith Melling
Fallen Silver Birch
Watercolour
Artist Keith Melling
Feathers of the Sun
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Felled Tree and Limestone Wall, near Thorpe, Yorkshire Dales
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Finds II
Watercolour
Millennium Fireworks over Nelson, from the Noggarth road
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Flag
Watercolour
Artist Keith Melling
Flow
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Fossil III
Watercolour
Towards Warrendale Knotts from Attermire Scar, Settle, Yorkshire Dales
Watercolour
Frozen Sunrays
Artist: Keith Melling
Watercolour
Garden III
Oil painting
Artist : Keith Melling
Garden I
Artist : Keith Melling
Oil painting
Ghost of a Brick
Artist : Keith Melling
Watercolour
Hawthorn and the stones of Norber, Near Austwick, Yorkshire Dales
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Horsehead Moor, Lttondale, Yorkshire Dales
Acrylic painting
Artist : Keith Melling
Territories
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Humphrey Head, Cumbria
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Humphrey Head Point II, Cumbria
Heysham nuclear power station can be seen across the bay.
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Horton in Ribblesdale & Penyghent, Yorkshire Dales
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Fishing
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Four Figures
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Three Letters
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Across the Troutbeck Valley from the Garburn Road
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Catrigg Force Dusk, Ribblesdale
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
In Hebden Ghyll, Yorkshire Dales
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
In the Sea
Oil painting
Artist : Keith Melling
Indian Yellow and Brillant Schwartz
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Ingleborough and White Scars, Yorkshire Dales
Mist rolling in
Watercolour and pastel
Artist : Keith Melling
Inner Parallelogram
Watercolour and copper paint
Artist : Keith Melling
Jackdaws mobbing a buzzard over the flanks of Whernside, Ingleborough across the valley,Yorkshire Dales
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Later one Evening
Oil painting
Artist : Keith Melling
Black Lightning
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Lime Kiln near Conistone, Yorkshire Dales
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Limestone Pavement above Conistone Dib, Yorkshire Dales
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Limestone Pavement above Conistone Dib II, Yorkshire Dales
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Lingmoor Tarn, Lakeland
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Little Brown Birds in the Undergrowth
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Littondale & Penyghent from Ackerly Moor
Lochranza Harbour, Isle of Arran
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Long Distance Carpet
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Looking into Greenburn Valley from Helm Crag, Lakeland
Oil painting with sand added
Artist: Keith Melling
Distant Pendle Hill from Attermire Scar, Yorkshire Dales
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Looking towards Pendle Hill from the entrance of Attermire Cave, near Settle, Yorkshire Dales
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Loose Threads, Scotch Mist
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Loughrigg and Langdale Recollections, Lakeland
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Memory of a mountain walk, Lord's Rake, Scafell, Lakeland
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Memory of a mountain walk on Silver Howe near Grasmere, Lakeland
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Memory of a mountain walk , Helm Crag, near Grasmere, Lakeland
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Memory of a mountain walk, Patterdale from Hart Crag, Lakeland
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Memory of a winter walk through Boothman Wood, Barley, Lancashire
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Misty Raku Landscape
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Finds in the undergrowth
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Music at the Muni, Colne, Lancashire
Acrylic
Artist: Keith Melling
My Hand
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
With the Grain
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Night of Small Finds
Watercolour and copper paint
Artist : Keith Melling
Norber Boulders, Austwick, Yorkshire Dales
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Ocean Sunset
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
On a stone in a wall at Moughton Scars, Crummackdale, Yorkshire Dales
Watercolour
Artist :Keith Melling
Pendle Hill from Top o' Lingbobs, near Newchurch and Sabden Fold, Lancashire
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
QII
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Raku Landscape
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Deeps II
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Redder
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Remains III
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Rock & Water, River Doe, Ingleton
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Rocky shore with birds
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Rookery II
Oil painting
Artist : Keith Melling
City and night sky.
An older painting from 1970
Gouache
Sea Revolution
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Blue Sea Surge
Watercolour
Artist Keith Melling
Sea View
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Sea
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Searching for a way in Crier of Claife Wood, Lakeland
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Seeing the Wood for the Trees
Watercolour
Artist: Keith Melling
Shore II
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Signs and Tide Marks
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Sinking Battery
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Slow Water Weeds
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Snails in the Blue Grass
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Stump and Limestone
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Sugar Loaf Hill from Attermire Scar, near Settle, Yorkshire Dales
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Thieves Moss and Beggars Stile, Moughton Scars, Crummackdale, Yorkshire Dales
Watercolour
Artist : Keith melling
This Time
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Columns
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Through a Window
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Through the Trees III
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Tangle
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
On the limestone pavements above Conistone, looking towards Buckden Pike, Yorkshire Dales
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Towards Patterdale from Hart Crag II, Lakeland
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Towards the light, Crier of Claife Wood, Lakeland
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Two Raku Columns
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Wall Top and Sky
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Wall
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
West Shore, Coniston Water, Lakeland
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling
Well Yes and No
Watercolour
Artist : Keith Melling